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The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$410k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
61
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
46 to 70
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$101k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving40$410k98%
FY202361$396k89%
FY202270$326k87%
FY202162$320k97%
FY202046$195kn/a
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$526kScience & Tech$408kArts & Culture$298kRecreation & Sports$30kHuman Services$7kHealth$5kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$260,00040%
Donorschooseorg$130,00010%
Staten Island Technical High School PTA$5,00018%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$2,56610%
The Children's Aid Society$2,50010%
Kings County Tennis League$2,50010%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$2,50010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,50010%
Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College Foundation$2,50010%
Ps 347 the Amrican Sign Language and English Lower School Parent Te$2,5002n/a
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All grantees of The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$260,00040%
Donorschooseorg$130,00010%
Staten Island Technical High School PTA$5,00018%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$2,56610%
The Children's Aid Society$2,50010%
Kings County Tennis League$2,50010%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$2,50010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$2,50010%
Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College Foundation$2,50010%
Ps 347 the Amrican Sign Language and English Lower School Parent Te$2,5002n/a
Bronx Letters Foundation$2,00010%
Renaissance Charter School$2,00010%
Friends of Ps 163 Inc$1,00011%
Future Leaders Institute Charter School$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 246 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Fund for Public Schools Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $130,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStaten Island Technical High School PTA: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $2,566 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Aid Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKings County Tennis League: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEugenio Maria de Hostos Community College Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBronx Letters Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRenaissance Charter School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ps 163 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFuture Leaders Institute Charter School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education?

Find your warmest path to The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education

How much does The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education give?
The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education reported 40 grants totaling $410,066 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Science & Tech (25%), Arts & Culture (18%).
Who are The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($260k), Donorschooseorg ($130k), Staten Island Technical High School PTA ($5k).
Does The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education based?
The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 260 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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